WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS

WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Lara Eshkenazi, James Matheson

Published: August 17, 2003

Lara Karola Eshkenazi, an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan, and James Hollis Matheson, a composer, are to be married today on Cape Cod. Rabbi H. Hirsch Cohen is to officiate at the Wequassett Inn in Chatham, Mass.

The bride, 32, graduated with honors from Vassar College and received a law degree cum laude from Boston University. Her parents, Joan Eshkenazi and Dr. Azariah Eshkenazi, live in Forest Hills, Queens, where her father is a forensic psychiatrist.

The bridegroom, 33, graduated from Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in musical arts from Cornell. His works include ''The Paces,'' performed by Orchestra 2001 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia in April, and ''Falling,'' performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in November 2002. The bridegroom also is a freelance music copyist. His parents, Sheri Swab Matheson and Steven C. Matheson, live in Tampa, Fla., where his father is an advertising and marketing consultant.